Pnina Rosenblum

Pnina Rosenblum
Date of birth (1954-12-30) 30 December 1954
Place of birth Israel Petah Tikva, Israel
Knessets 16
Faction represented in Knesset
2005–2006 Likud

Pnina Rosenblum (Hebrew: פנינה רוזנבלום‎, born 30 December 1954) is an Israeli businesswoman, model, media personality and politician.

Early life

Rosenblum was born in Petah Tikva, Israel to parents of both Ashkenazi and Sephardic descent (German-Jewish and Iraqi-Jewish).

Career

1970s and 1980s: Modelling, acting, singing

Rosenblum was an actress and fashion model, known to foreign media in her youth as Pnina Golan. She appeared in the Israeli films Kasach (1984), Am Yisrael Hai (1981), Lo LeShidur (1981), Diamante Lobo (1976), and Malkat HaKvish (1971).

She briefly debuted as a singer in 1983, in a bid to represent Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest. Her entry, Tamid Isha ("Always a Woman") was ranked last.[1]

1999–2009: Politics and Knesset

In 1999, she formed the independent list Tnufa ("Momentum") with Avi Balashnikov in order to run in the 1999 Knesset (the Israeli parliament) elections. Although her party failed to cross the electoral threshold, it won more votes than other minor parties such as the Green Party and Tzomet.

Rosenblum later joined the Likud party, and on 10 December 2005 entered Israel's parliament, the "Knesset", after the defection of several Likud MKs to Kadima opened up spaces for new Likud members. However, her stint as an MK did not last long, as she lost her seat a few months later in the March 2006 elections. In 2009 the Likud placed her at the unrealistic 46th place.

Since 1989: Business and television

In 1989, she founded her own and highly successful cosmetics company, Pnina Rosenblum Ltd.

In 2014, she and her daughter Hen competed as a team on the fourth season of the Israeli version of the Amazing Race, HaMerotz LaMillion. Pnina tripped and fractured her wrist immediately upon departing the Starting Line, eliminating them from the race before they even had a chance to leave Israel.

Personal life

In the early 1990s she married Moshe Haim, with whom she adopted two children. Haim and Rosenblum got divorced, re-married, and then got divorced again. In 2004, she was married to Israeli businessman Ronny Simanovich, father of three from his previous marriage (one of them is model Coral Simanovich).

References

  1. ↑ Pnina Rosenblum: Israeli princess in pink Ynet, 29 October 2006.
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